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"Check bags are fun. I just make sure there won't be anything illegal in my check bag which is forbidden at a cabin of a plane. Just leaving things like scissors and such out of my carry-on things in order to avoid troubles with some certain airline, y'know."

"That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it."

"Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back."

"Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is."
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"Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all."

"I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty."

"A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle."

"Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun."

"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness."
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